HYDERABAD: Muslim religious leaders have given a call to the community to boycott marriages performed in violation of the Islamic laws.

A resolution to this effect adopted at a round table conference organized by the All India Jamaitul Mashaiq this week was released here Wednesday.

Nine Muslim religious heads told a press conference that the city girl Ameena’s marriage with an old Arab was result of “soul-sapping” poverty of the girl’s parents. Expressing concern over what they called “blowing out of the Ameena episode they alleged that certain forces were creating ground for introduction of common civil code

Article extracted from this publication >> September 27, 1991